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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 16 quotes by Katherine Boo Katherine "Kate" J. Boo (born August 12, 1964) is an American investigative journalist who has documented the lives of people in poverty. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2000), the MacArthur "genius" award (2002), and the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012). She has been a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine since 2003. Her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity won nonfiction... Read full biography of Katherine Boo → 1 2 Ctrl → People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them... → 0 In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. 0 People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other. 0 One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They... → 0 There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most... → 0 A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all. 0 For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying? 0 I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences. 0 I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in... → 0 I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't... → 0 When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a... → 0 When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own... → 0 I'm not squeamish. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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